Archive for May, 2007
Friday, May 18th, 2007
Maybe I am the only person in the world who thinks this, but I can't stand the gmail interface. Tim O'Reilly's post reflecting on Bill Higgins post the Uncanny Valley of user interface design made me groan. Higgins talks about why gmail is better then zimbra - an up and coming open ...
Posted in UI, blackberry, email, gmail, goodlink, google, mobile, mobile email, zimbra | 3 Comments »
Friday, May 18th, 2007
Microsoft (Ticker: MSFT) announced that it was buying its Seattle neighbor aquantive (Ticker: AQNT) this morning for a whopping $6 billion!!!!! Aquantive is best known for its two main business units - Avenue A (media planning agency) and AtlasDMT (ad server). Congrats to all my friends who work their now ...
Posted in aqnt, aquantive, atlas dmt, avenue a, microsoft, msft | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
Having been fortunate to have worked last winter with Spock, the burgeoning search engine for people, I have a beta account. So I figure I would should share somethings - here's my spock search of the day:
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "pimping spock", url: "http://www.sawickipedia.com/blog/2007/05/15/pimping-spock/" });
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Monday, May 14th, 2007
I admit I am a sucker for shows with a mythology arc - from X-files to Lost to now Heroes. I just got done watching this week's episode where basically nothing happened. And as such - is it just me or was heroes way better before the spring hiatus? And has the ...
Posted in heroes, lost, x files | 2 Comments »
Monday, May 14th, 2007
With Redfin in the news with the company being featured on 60 minutes last night, I figured I would share my experience. Last fall, I bought my current house using Redfin in large part because of the comission rebate after having played with their site for the prior year as my ...
Posted in real estate, real estate 2.0, redfin | No Comments »
Monday, May 14th, 2007
Noted New York VC Fred Wilson's comment on his non-involvement with any of the purported machinations going on with wallstrip, the online video show, raises a great point. VC's are not super-men/women or the masters of the universe that perhaps the public might perceive. In almost every case, the credit ...
Posted in fred wilson, vc | No Comments »
Friday, May 11th, 2007
This is perhaps the best followon to my post about Renee's observation about living in an echo-chamber - what is all the excitement about joost for? Let's see p2p streaming techonology - that's been around for years from folks like kontera and even in video form for the last year ...
Posted in joost, kazaa, online video, p2p, skype | 3 Comments »
Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Friend and colleague Renee Blodgett (she can blame me for getting her involved in the people search engine startup Spock) wrote an interesting post about what she calls the web 2.0 echochamber. Her point is that we in the online startup business can get wrapped up in the new and ...
Posted in amazon.com, ebay, renee blodgett, twitter, web 2.0, yahoo | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
I've been getting emails from folks about both posts. First, I don't have anything against Google or Yahoo. And in Google's case I should point out - there's nothing illegal about being a monopoly (a point MSFT might have better pursued). What's illegal is anti-competitive behavior. And there's no indication of ...
Posted in google, yahoo | No Comments »
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
I was able to visit emetrics today on behalf of loomia. Thanks to my colleague and friend dave mcclure I was able to meet some cool folks. But more importantly I got to see a demo of the new analytics UI. If you're an adwords user - it's AWESOME. Much ...
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